Mother of All the Behans

Download or read book Mother of All the Behans written by Kathleen Behan and published by Poolbeg PressLtd. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of an extraordinary woman, the redoubtable Kathleen Behan, who has presided over one of the most brilliant and controversial families of modern Irelandz This biography tells a dramatic, sometimes tragic and often very funny story which embraces almost a century of Irish history. Kathleen's first husband and her brother had been active in Easter Week, and afterwards she became housekeeper to Maud Gonne MacBride in her house on St. Stephen's Green, where she was visited by Yeats and Joyce. Kathleen's later marriage to Stephan Behan produced a large family, including Brendan, the famous post-war Irish writer and playwright, and Dominic and Brian Behan.